Tunc ne levis aura retectos Auferret cineres, saxo compressit harenam: 790 Nautaque ne bustum religato fune moveret, Inscripsit sacrum semiusto stipite nomen: HIC SITUS EST MAGNUS. . . . Quod si tam sacro dignaris nomine saxum, 806 Adde actus tantos monimentaque maxima rerum, Adde truces Lepidi motus Alpinaque bella Armaque Sertori revocato consule victa, Et currus quos egit eques, commercia tuta 810 Gentibus et pavidos Cilicas maris: adde subactam Barbariem gentesque vagas et quidquid in Euro Regnorum Boreaque iacet. Die semper ab armis Civilem repetisse togam, ter curribus actis Contentum patriae multos donasse triumphos. 815 Quis capit haec tumulus? Surgit miserabile bustum Non ullis plenum titulis, non ordine tanto Fastorum, solitumque legi super alta deorum Culmina et exstructos spoliis hostilibus arcus Haud procul est ima Pompei nomen harena, 820 Depressum tumulo, quod non legat advena rectus, Quod nisi monstratum Romanus transeat hospes. LUCAN, _Pharsalia_, viii. 789-793, 806-822. +Subject.+ Cordus, whom Lucan calls _infaustus Magni comes_ (or according to Plutarch Philippus the faithful freedman of Pompeius), finds the cast-up body of Pompeius and gives it honourable burial. [Linenotes: 793. +HIC SITUS EST+ = ἔνθαδε κεῖται, the regular inscription on a tombstone. 808. +truces Lepidi motus.+ Cf. page 178, last note on page. 809. +revocato consule+, i.e. Metellus. Cf. page 180, A., l. 12. [[Selection B21, “Metello”]] 811. +pavidos Cilicas maris+ = _the Cilicians scared from the sea_. --Jebb. _Pompeius effecit ut piratae timerent maria quibus ipsi ante grassabantur_ (= they sailed at will).--Schol. 813-814. +dic semper ... togam+, e.g. after his triumph over Spain 71 B.C., and over Mithridates and the East in 61 B.C. 814-815. +ter curribus ... triumphos+ = (tell how) _content with thrice driving the_ (triumphal) _car he made a present to his fatherland of many triumphs_, i.e. he did not claim them when he might have done so. 817-818. +Non ordine tanto Fastorum+ = _storied with no majestic annals_. --Jebb. 819. +arcus+ = _triumphal arches_, orig. temporary structures of wood, but under the Empire built of marble, e.g. of Septimius Severus. 821. +Depressum ... rectus+ = _sunk low upon a tomb, which the stranger cannot read without stooping_ (+rectus+).--Haskins.] B62 CIVIL WAR, 49-45 B.C. (13) _Atrox Animus Catonis, 46 B.C._